{"id":671319,"date":"2026-09-04T00:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/671319\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T00:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:22:11","slug":"brett-goldsteins-3-day-training-week-proves-more-isnt-always-better-for-building-muscle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/671319\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Goldstein\u2019s 3-Day Training Week Proves More Isn\u2019t Always Better For Building Muscle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brett Goldstein<\/a> is no stranger to putting in the work. The 46-year-old Ted Lasso star first began training seriously for his homegrown superhero film SuperBob, before later levelling up to play Hercules in Thor: Love and Thunder and, more recently, gracing our cover. <\/p>\n

But the biggest training lesson he\u2019s learned? More isn\u2019t always better.<\/p>\n

Asked what a good week looks like when tackling our \u2018World\u2019s Toughest Interview\u2019<\/a>, Goldstein \u2013 ever relatable \u2013 reeled off a refreshingly achievable schedule: \u2018Weights Monday, Wednesday, Friday, walking or running the other days, one day of Pilates<\/a>.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Working with New York trainer and former bodybuilder Victor Del Valle, however, Goldstein originally had slightly more ambitious ideas.<\/p>\n

\u2018He said, \u201cWhat do you want to do?\u201d I said, \u201cWeights five days a week.\u201d He said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to do three days a week.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

What about the other two days?<\/p>\n

\u2018He said, \u201cBrother, you\u2019re not going to be able to walk the other days.\u201d And he was right.\u2019 <\/p>\n

When we spoke to Goldstein he told us those sessions revolve around \u2018superset<\/a> circuits\u2019 and \u2018very heavy weights\u2019. Goldstein says his trainer \u2018absolutely fucking destroys me Monday, Wednesday, Friday\u2019, leaving the rest of the week for recovery.<\/p>\n

Sure, on paper, five days sounds better than three. More sessions. More sets. More opportunities to grow. But muscle building isn\u2019t about how much work you can compress into a single week. It\u2019s about how much work you can actually recover from.<\/p>\n

Training provides the stimulus. Recovery<\/a> is where your body rebuilds and adapts. If every session is a demolition job, throwing another two into the mix can quickly turn productive volume into junk reps, stalled progress and a body that feels as though it\u2019s been put through the ringer without much in the way of results.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean Goldstein spends the other four days slouching, though. Walking, running and Pilates keep him active without repeatedly dipping into the same recovery reserves. \u2018I have to exercise every day or I go mad,\u2019 he told MH. But daily movement and daily hard training are two very different propositions.<\/p>\n

As for the health habit that\u2019s made the biggest difference? \u2018Weights,\u2019 Goldstein says. \u2018Doing more weights. Training more.\u2019<\/p>\n

Just, crucially, not all the time.<\/p>\n

Read our full interview with Brett at this link<\/a>. You can subscribe to Men’s Health by clicking here<\/a>.\"man<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brett Goldstein is no stranger to putting in the work. The 46-year-old Ted Lasso star first began training…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[278],"tags":[152422,167101,2320,283679,343,18,525,135,19,17,201411,342,283678,240005,153838],"class_list":["post-671319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-collection-celebrity-workouts","tag-collection-recovery","tag-content-type-default","tag-contentid-bfa71cae-2dfa-4cbb-8d42-bcac0233232c","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-eire","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-why-brett-goldstein-only-trains-3-days-a-week","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-train-smarter"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117209921065510041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}